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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry, OP, but your kid sounds too vanilla to have succeeded this year. High SES white kids are a dime a dozen in the "top" MS privates game.  Why don't you play another game for at least another year, like BASIS as has been suggested, or suburban GT.

Our neighbors at a JKLM moved to MoCo after 5th and sent their girl to Takoma MS in MoCo for 6th grade, partly to give her a shot at cracking the math/sci magnet at the school for 7th. She succeeded and has gone onto Montgomery Blair HS math/sci magnet.[/quote]

This is total BS.  You don't have to be a triliingual national-ranked tuba player who has started a few companies to get into these schools.  The kids are 10.  It's not the Ivy League.  99% of the admits are just reasonably smart kids (many whom are white) who take piano lessons or play rec soccer and basketball. 
I know dozens of students at the "big 3" and they're no more uniquely accomplished than every other kid I know.   Some (many) do get in on the merits of their parents or because they came form x or y feeder school.  But they themselves are generic kids.

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Apparently, you have to do/be something to get into these schools that OP's kid didn't/wasn't, at least this particular year.  I'm not buying the X or Y feeder school connection. Friends with kids at the right "feeder schools" are telling the same story.

I'd bet money that the most prestigious privates are admitting Asians, Latinos, Blacks, low-income, native speakers of languages, prodigies etc. instead of OP's type kid when spots are scarce.[/quote]

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